Business Processes and Workflow Coordination of Web Services

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Estublier ◽  
S. Sanlaville
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Business Processes

scholarly journals An automated optimisation framework for the development of re-configurable business processes: a web services approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Vergidis ◽  
Christopher Turner ◽  
Alex Alechnovic ◽  
Ashutosh Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Business Processes

Semantic Web Services-Based Knowledge Management Framework

2016 ◽  
pp. 429-438
Author(s):  
Vili Podgorelec ◽  
Boštjan Grašič
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Service Oriented

In this chapter, a Semantic Web services-based knowledge management framework that enables holistic knowledge management in organizations is presented. As the economy is becoming one single global marketplace, where the best offer wins, organizations have to search for competitive advantage within themselves. With the growing awareness that key potentials of an organization lie within its people and their knowledge, efficient knowledge management is becoming one of key focuses in organizational activities. The proposed knowledge management framework is based on Semantic Web technologies and service-oriented architecture, supporting the operational business processes as well as knowledge-based management of services in service-oriented architecture.

A Role of Enterprise Service Bus in Building Web Services

2017 ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Dinesh Sharma ◽  
Devendra Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Service Bus ◽  
Fast Processing ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Services Use

Present is the era of fast processing industries or organization gives more emphasis for planning of business processes. This planning may differ from industry to industry. Service oriented architecture provides extensible and simple architecture for industry problem solutions. Web services are a standardized way for developing interoperable applications. Web services use open standards and protocols like http, xml and soap. This chapter provides a role of enterprise service bus in building web services.

Costs and Benefits in Supply Chain Collaboration

2005 ◽  
pp. 258-284
Author(s):  
Tim S. McLaren ◽  
Milena M. Head ◽  
Yufei Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Business Applications

Recent advances in supply chain management information systems (SCM IS) have enabled firms to more fully collaborate with their supply chain partners — driving out costs while increasing responsiveness to market demands. This chapter examines various types of SCM IS — from traditional EDI systems to more recent Web-services-based e-business applications. It argues that the approach best suited for an organization depends in part on the degree of integration between the partners, the complexity of the business processes, and the number of partners involved. A model is presented for analyzing the costs and benefits that can be expected from each type of SCM IS. The model enables researchers and practitioners to better understand the differences among SCM IS and thus can help reduce the risks of implementing these valuable yet complex information systems.

Application Service Provision

2005 ◽  
pp. 99-133
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Guah ◽  
Wendy L. Currie
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Implementation Program ◽  
The Impact

The Application Service Provision (ASP) business model offers a pragmatic adoption path for inter-organizations in the Internet Age. Given this pragmatic adoption path, academics are beginning to question the following: Where are enterprises adopting ASP technology first? Why are they choosing these areas? Where will they apply the evolving Web services technology next? This chapter’s primary purposes are to point out a number of issues that concern management of inter-organizations of the Internet Age and to explore the impact of ASP on such organizations. It will examine the strategies that will enable inter-organizations to better manage ASP resources for competitive advantage. While the phenomenon of ASP is still in an embryonic stage, we draw from seminal works of IS pioneers like Markus, Porter, Checkland, Maslow, and others. Their intellectual contributions, plus findings from research work at Brunel University, provide a framework for discussion. By shedding light on patterns of ASP’s trajectory, drivers, benefits, and risks, the chapter will help managers and academics to reflect on determining where ASP—and associated technologies—might be deployed and define a broad implementation program to exploit the potential of the ASP business model. The chapter seeks to find if Web services architectures are distinctively able to enhance the flexible coordination of business processes, which span various enterprises and rely on inter-organization information systems in the Internet Age.

A Conceptual Framework for Business Process Modeling in Virtual Organizations

2010 ◽  
pp. 1627-1638
Author(s):  
Dimitris Folinas ◽  
Tania Pavlou ◽  
Bill Karakostas ◽  
Vicky Manthou
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Modelling Procedure

Among different approaches in business processes modelling procedure are those in virtual and dynamic organizational environments. In this paper, a conceptual framework for modelling business processes in Virtual Organizations is suggested, by introducing Web Services technology. Web Services can be the business enabler for the new organizational form, which is particularly well suited to meet the demands arising from today’s turbulent changes in the firms’ environment. The proposed framework consists of several steps in a bottom-up approach, aiming to support the modelling and coordination of the complex and shared business processes in the examined environment.

Application of the FUSION Approach for Tool Assisted Composition of Web Services in Cross Organisational Environments

2010 ◽  
pp. 628-643
Author(s):  
Spiros Alexakis ◽  
Markus Bauer ◽  
András Balogh ◽  
Akos Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Heterogeneous Service ◽  
Fusion Approach

The research project FUSION aims at supporting collaboration and interconnection between enterprises with technologies that allow for the semantic fusion of heterogeneous service-oriented business applications. The resulting FUSION approach is an enterprise application integration (EAI) conceptual framework proposing a system architecture that supports the composition of business processes using semantically annotated Web services as building blocks. The approach has been validated in the frame of three collaborative commercial proof-of-concept pilots. The chapter provides an overview on the FUSION approach and summarises our integration experiences with the application of the FUSION approach and tools during the implementation of transnational career and human resource management services.

A Model-based Approach for Diagnosing Fault in Web Service Processes

2013 ◽  
pp. 92-116
Author(s):  
Yuhong Yan ◽  
Philippe Dague ◽  
Yannick Pencolé ◽  
Marie-Odile Cordier
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Service Orchestration ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Web Service Orchestration ◽  
Business Process Execution

Web services based on a service-oriented architecture framework provide a suitable technical foundation for business process management and integration. A business process can be composed of a set of Web services that belong to different companies and interact with each other by sending messages. Web service orchestration languages are defined by standard organizations to describe business processes composed of Web services. A business process can fail for many reasons, such as faulty Web services or mismatching messages. It is important to find out which Web services are responsible for a failed business process because we could penalize these Web services and exclude them from the business process in the future. In this paper, we propose a model-based approach to diagnose the faults in a Web service-composed business process. We convert a Web service orchestration language, more specifically BPEL4WS, into synchronized automata, so that we have a formal description of the topology and variable dependency of the business process. After an exception is thrown, the diagnoser can calculate the business process execution trajectory based on the formal model and the observed evolution of the business process. The faulty Web services are deduced from the variable dependency on the execution trajectory. We demonstrate our diagnosis technique with an example.

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